In preparing for the upcoming Age of Conan server merges, Funcom has made an announcement that characters below level 20 on inactive accounts (7+ months inactive) will be deleted. Former customers are being informed in advance with via e-mail, in case you want to you know, subscribe to save your poor newbie.

The editorial staff here at MMORPG.com has made their decisions, and today we start to unveil the winners of the 2009 MMORPG.com awards by naming our Most Improved Game of 2009.

Craig Morrison addresses the community in 2009 one last time with the release of December’s Letter from the Game Director. In the letter, Morrison discusses the 1.06 patch cycle, progress on the Rise of the Godslayer expansion, and takes some time to welcome the Korean players who are currently beta testing the Korean localization of the game.

MMORPG.com Age of Conan correspondent John Humphrey writes this look at Rise of the Godslayer, the upcoming expansion to Funcom’s Age of Conan.

Confused by the headline? Well, this could be a bit of a head scratcher! FilePlanet is offering users the ability to download an unlimited free trial of Age of Conan, but the offer is only good until December 31st, 2009.

Rise of the Godslayer is the first expansion for Funcom’s Age of Conan, and we’ve got an exclusive dev diary video on the expansion to bring you up to speed.

The video of yesterday’s Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer expansion demo on XFire is now available for viewing for those of you who missed it.

Additional details on Age of Conan Update 6 were revealed in a recent preview at IncGamers. According to the preview, Update 6 is slated to be one of the biggest updates to Age of Conan yet, introducing a number of new features including the Guild Renown system, PvP Arenas, and tier three raid content, including a dungeon taking place in the stronghold of Thoth-Amon himself.

Head on over to XFire on December 7th at noon PST to get a glimpse of Funcom’s upcoming Age of Conan expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, in an exclusive live stream preview event.

Age of Conan Game Director Craig Morrison addresses the community once again in this month’s Letter from the Game Director. In the letter Morrison discusses Conan’s upcoming Korean launch, as well as revealing some details on the 1.06 update, including news that the update will be hitting test servers this week.

MMORPG.com Age of Conan Correspondent John Humphrey writes this look at marketing and how Age of Conan, a totally revamped game with an expansion on the way, can learna thing or two from Blizzard.

Funcom has re-launched their re-evaluation campaign for Age of Conan, this time offering players new incentives to return and subscribe to Age of Conan for extended periods.

As part of the re-evaluation campaign players who have inactive subscriptions are invited back to play Age of Conan free for two weeks, and will receive a double XP boost during their free period.

The Funcom team has updated their official AoC Blog here at MMORPG.com. This time, Glen “Famine” Swan takes a behind-the-scenes look at the game’s content team.

Today, we ask Funcom’s Craig Morrison about his philosophies on attempting to balance ranged and melee combat styles in an MMO.

Age of Conan Game Director Craig Morrison addresses the community once more in this latest Letter from the Game Director. This month’s letter focuses on a number of new initiatives Funcom has taken to cultivate the Age of Conan community, the new Recruit-a-Friend Program, the Volunteer Program, the upcoming 1.06 patch cycle, and more!